[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Board of Directors elections results

[Ravi Kumar]

Congrats to the new board entrants,
Ravi Kumar

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Vasile Craciunescu <vasile at geo-spatial.org>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Theses are the final results from the 2015 elections[1] for the open
> seats[2] of the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were *five* seats open
> and they have been filled by (alphabetical order):
>
> - Anita Graser
> - Helena Mitasova
> - Jody Garnett
> - Sanghee Shin
> - Venkatesh Raghavan
>
> Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections process. Overall
> voting participation was 88% (246 from 280):
>
> - 246 complete votes;
> - 8 incomplete responses (the survey was open but not submitted);
> - 26 members did not open the survey at all.
>
> There were no tie scores to arbitrate. Thank you to all who voted!
>
> The complete resulting Board for 2015/2016 is presented bellow:
>
> - Anita Graser
> - Helena Mitasova
> - Jody Garnett
> - Massimiliano Cannata
> - Michael Smith
> - Sanghee Shin
> - Vasile Craciunescu
> - Venkatesh Raghavan
>
> With the election results published[3] the new Board of Directors[4]
> becomes effective as of now. According with the rule established last
> year, the detailed scores of each nominee will be published ASAP on our
> wiki.
>
> Congratulations and please, dear members, welcome the new OSGeo directors!
>
> We wish to thank the outgoing directors for their continued support of
> OSGeo and for helping to run a fantastic organization with a great
> membership and lots of energy. Anne, Jachym, Jorge, Gerald and Bart, thank
> you very much!
>
> We thank all candidates who stood in this election and all OSGeo
> Charter Members for their contribution and votes. Nimalika and Dirk,
> thanks for stepping up, we are looking forward to work with you and the
> rest of the members to keep the foundation growing and improving.
>
> My role as CRO is ending now. It was a privilege to work with you to
> further grow OSGeo. Personally, I would like to also thank Jorge for all
> his hard work put in the electronic voting system and to Jeff for his
> continuous support. In the following weeks I will get back to you and
> reopen two discussions:
>
> - Election process for the following years (survey conclusions and
> analysis);
> - Mechanisms for assuring up to date charter members contact channels and
> retirement of inactive members (I will present some voting statistics for
> the last couple of years).
>
> Best regards.
> Vasile
> CRO 2015
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2015
> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2015
> [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2015_Results
> [4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors
>
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